PDF Specifications

PDFs should be optimized. Optimization is useful to reduce your files size, allowing for higher performance when transferring, uploading, viewing and printing the files.

If scanned pages or scanned graphs are included in file, all scanned images with of text should be OCRed using the Adobe Acrobat OCR embedded feature.

Common Points of Failure

Crop marks or other printer's marks should not be used on any files.

The book description should be in compliance with the rules listed here.

Missing Pages

Title missing on the front cover

Incorrect pagination

Books with typographical errors, such as misspellings or poor grammar.

Book Block Specifications

Page Size

8.5 x 11 or A5, Color images 300 DPI. Do not reduce images to 72 DPI.

Font

Embed font information

Margins and Alignment

Content should be positioned on the page according to its location in the document

General Pages should be set up from with either left side justified or double side justified.

Allow 0.75" for the gutter (the left side on odd pages, and the right side on even pages) and 0.5" for the outside margin (the right side on odd pages and the left side on even pages).

Exception: If a 0.75" gutter creates an ouside margin smaller than 0.5", then the margins should be even, left and right (centering he text block on the page). We recommend including larger gutters on books with more than 600 pages.

Pagination

Book pages must be numbered

All books must be paginated independently from preceding volumes (e.g. Volume I-Book 1 ends with page 300 and Volume II-Book 2 should begin with page 1, not page 301.)

Color and Halftone Images

Resolution: 300 DPI or higher

Format: JPEG (JPEG Photosop compression

Monochrome Bitmap Images

Resolution: 600 DPI

Format: TIFF (CCITT Group 4 (preferred), LZW, or no compression)

Interior Full Bleed

Full-bleed interiors (with content that extends past the edge of the page, with no white space on the edges) should have 0.125" of bleed at the top, bottom, and outer margins (exclude the gutter). For example, a finished book with a rim size of 8.5" x 11" interior PDF.